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Embracing my Motherhood!

A praying Mom...

Angels for Kids!

for ages 5 and up!

Now Released!

The Miraculous Medal book

Part keepsake, part teaching book - Now released!

hard cover book for fourth grade and up

For Catholic Moms!

Now RELEASED!

My upcoming TV show

I'm very excited to announce that in addition to my show, "Everyday Blessings for Catholic Moms," I am working on a BRAND NEW TV show For Catholic Moms for EWTN! You can check out more here: Catholic Mom's Cafe I'll keep you posted.

Newly Released!

Endorsed by Cardinal Dolan

Embracing Motherhood

"In this small volume, Embracing Motherhood, Ms. Cooper O'Boyle offers a sensitive reflection on what it means to tune into faith, hope, and charity, living out the vocation of raising children, passing on our Catholic faith, and providing our kids with the necessary roots and wings to live virtuously. Mothers and fathers too can grow spiritually from this book, and draw inspiration from her tender perspective. This is a substantive and practical gem as well as an ode of joy for God's gift of motherhood!"~Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York

RE-RELEASED with Hard Cover

Prayerfully Expecting: A Nine Month Novena for Mothers-to-Be...with foreword by Mother Teresa and blessed by Pope John Paul II

Prayerfully Expecting RERELEASED in hard cover!

Prayerfully Expecting: A Nine Month Novena for Mothers-To-Be

I wrote this book while on complete bed rest during a high risk pregnancy with my fifth child, Mary-Catherine. Blessed Mother Teresa whom I knew at that time, gave me a foreword for the book. Pope John Paul II blessed it. It is a book to celebrate pregnancy as a wonderful time of anticipation as mothers await childbirth and it offers the expectant Mom the opportunity to transform her pregnancy into a novena of prayer to God. It's a "baby book" for the unborn baby! An expectant Mom will be able to follow her baby's progress and record her thoughts and prayers as well as save her ultrasound pictures to cherish in years to come.

Here's a link to my chat with Brian Patrick on the Son Rise Morning show discussing pregnancy and motherhood. My spot is about 3/4 through the segment. Click here.

Podcast interview with Catholic Mom.Com's Lisa Hendey

You can listen to our conversation about Prayerfully Expecting and my future projects by clicking here. You can then scroll down and click on "direct download."

Standing with my daughter, Chaldea

who illustrated "Prayerfully Expecting," "The Heart of Motherhood," and the cover of "The Domestic Church." I'm really taller than she is--she's standing on a step!

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Season One DVD: 25 episodes

Now Released!

EWTN's Bookmark interview RE: "Mother Teresa and Me" and more

Is Holiness Lost in Housework?

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Blessings for Moms! Keeping Sunday Holy.

Sheer sweetness

illustration by my daughter, Chaldea that appears in my book, "The Heart of Motherhood."

My daughter's etsy page

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Donna-Marie's books!

You may go to Donna-Marie's website to order autographed copies of her books here: DonnaCooper O'Boyle And below you can order the books through Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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For ALL Catholic women

A Catholic Woman's Book of Prayers

With all the mixed messages that women receive from society today, women can be distracted from--and even unreceptive to--the deep and abiding love that Christ has for them. Whether single or married, religious or consecrated, parenting children, or spiritually mentoring others, women need to know that the Lord understands the many challenges they face, their desire for inspiration, and, above all, their need to be affirmed as women.Through this book of original and traditional prayers from one of the top ten most fascinating Catholics of 2009 as rated by Faith & Family Live, women can realize God's divine Love, thrive in inspiration from Saints and the Church and rest in the affirmation of the "feminine genius." (order above by clicking book image)

My recent interview on "WISP Live" Holy Spirit Radio

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FREE SHIPPING and HANDLING

On orders of 10 copies or more (for group studies) there is FREE SHIPPING AND HANDLING! Use this Pay Pal button (only for orders of 10 copies of The Domestic Church Room By Room or more).
For single copies or orders under 10 copies, scroll down to order at another PayPal button or from my website.

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Donna-Marie's Books

Kindly scroll down this column to see Donna-Marie's books and an opportunity to order autographed copies or visit her website: Donna Cooper O'Boyle.Com

Catholic Prayer Book for Mothers

The Heart of Motherhood: Finding Holiness in the Catholic Home

The Heart Of Motherhood

Book signings and events

To inquire about booking an appearance, email me at DMCOBoyle(at)aol(dot) com

"Even in the midst of difficulties and uncertainties, every person sincerely open to truth and goodness can, by the light of reason and the hidden action of grace, come to recognize in the natural law written in the heart (cf. Rom. 2:14-15) the sacred value of human life from its very beginning until its end, and can affirm the right of every human being to have this primary good respected to the highest degree."--Pope John Paul II, "Evangelium vitae"

My radio segments with Teresa Tomeo on "Catholic Connection" on Ave Maria Radio

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"Donna has submitted a number of articles that have found a place on the Catholic Exchange website, enriching our readers with her insights into the lives of modern women. She writes with a broad comprehension of the rapidly changing scene of this world, and with deep understanding of the challenges faced by Catholic women – and all women – today. It is clear from her writing that she believes in the power of women to make the world a better place and she is not afraid to challenge women to start that transformation in their own hearts and homes. Catholic Exchange readers have been very blessed to have Donna share her thoughts with them and as editor, I have been blessed by the high professional quality of Donna’s work." --Mary Kochan, Senior Editor

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Radiating Christ

Dear Jesus,help me to spread Your fragrance everywhere I go. Flood my soul with Your Spirit and Life. Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly that my life may only be a radiance of Yours. Shine through me and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul. Let then look up, and see no longer me, but only Jesus! Stay with me and then I will begin to shine as You shine, so as to shine as to be a light to others. The light, O Jesus, will be all from You; none of it will be mine. It will be You, shining on others through me. Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words but by example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears for You. Amen.

Composed by John Henry Cardinal Newman and one of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta's favorite prayers. She TRULY LIVED this prayer!

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God comes to us in the things we know best and can verify most easily, the things of our everyday life.--Pope John Paul II

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Life must be guarded...

"From the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care, while abortion and infanticide are unspeakable crimes." --Second Vatican Council

Totus Tuus

Immaculate Conception, Mary, my Mother. Live in me. Act in me. Speak in and through me. Think your thoughts in my mind. Love, through my heart. Give me your dispositions and feelings. Teach, lead and guide me to Jesus. Correct, enlighten and expand my thoughts and behavior. Possess my soul. Take over my entire personality and life. Replace it with yourself. Incline me to constant adoration and thanksgiving. Pray in me and through me. Let me live in you and keep me in this union always. – Pope John Paul II

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In addition to my books, I have written for...

The English edition of L'Osservatore Romano (Vatican newspaper)

Currently write for national publications: The National Catholic Register and the Our Sunday Visitor newsweekly. Have written for: The Catholic Transcript, The News Times, The New Milford Times, Hearth magazine, Canticle magazine, Lay Witness magazine, Faith & Family magazine, CarbLite magazine, On the Web - Catholic Exchange, Catholic Lane, and Catholic Online, and Catholic Mom.com. I wrote a parenting column for Irish Family Press (print edition), a Catholic weekly newspaper published in Ireland, (online edition now available). My articles have appeared in other countries, such as Nigeria and Singapore. My book Catholic Prayer Book for Mothers has been translated into Russian.

Finding God in our "domestic churches"

“It is most laudible in a married woman to be devout, but she must never forget that she is a housewife and sometimes must leave God at the altar to find him in housekeeping”--St. Frances of Rome

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PRAYERS ARE NEEDED...(prayer requests change periodically, so please look through) for a man who died whom his sister feels what not in a state of grace, for a woman I met at a retreat I gave in Texas whose baby died, for a woman who struggles with her husband's addiction and for help for the family, for a young family in need of prayer, for a friend with breast cancer, for families everywhere who struggle in our culture today, for the folks at EWTN who work hard to bring you Catholic news and inspiration. Let's be sure to pray for all of our priests everywhere who are certainly in need of prayers to continue their work each day!

Serving Jesus in others

"Dearest Lord, may I see You today and every day in the person of Your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto You. Though You hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize You, and say:'Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve You"~Blessed Mother Teresa

with my son, Joseph

"A living love hurts. Jesus, to prove His love for us, died on the Cross. The mother, to give to her child, has to suffer. If you really love one another properly, there must be sacrifice.~"Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta

We must use the modern methods of making ourselves be heard in a reasonable way--or, better yet, of making the voice of the Lord accessible and comprehensible."--Pope Benedict XVI

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Parents are the FIRST and foremost educators of their children!

"Since parents have conferred life on their children, they have a most solemn obligation to educate their offspring. Hence, parents must be acknowledged as the first and foremost educators of their children. Their role as educators is so decisive that scarcely anything can compensate for their failure in it. For it devolves on parents to create a family atmosphere so animated with love and reverence for God and others that a well-rounded personal and social development will be fostered among children. Hence, the family is the first school of those social virtues which every society needs."--Gravissimum Educationis (one of the documents of the Second Vatican Council)